"When I am writing a story it feels……" — Tayari Jones
"When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess."
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25 Quotes by Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones has 25 quotes on this site.
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People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill…
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And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental.…
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Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your…
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I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The…
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If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.
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I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a…
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Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more…
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It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.
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My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized…
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This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as…
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we…
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I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't…
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More Emotional Quotes
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
— Aristotle
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
— Richard Bach
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I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also…
— Erykah Badu
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I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on…
— Amy Adams
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
— James A. Baldwin
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional…
— Alan Ball
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
— Roger Bannister
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I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard…
— Javier Bardem
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
— Javier Bardem
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
— Luis Barragan
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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you…
— Scott Adams
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Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.
— Kabir Bedi
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